A Summer’s Journey and a Winter's Campaign. 19

upon education, this community of Indians is likely to advance
rapidly. Their progress is stirring up envious feelings among
the other tribes of this nation. Deputations have come to me
begging me to send them teachers, but we cannot support
them if we had them. -

“Our services have been crowded by attentive congre-
gations, especially the regular daily evening service. The
miners, too, come, and I rejoice to see them, not only for their
own sakes, but for the sake of the Indians, on whom they
exercise much influence. When in the spring they left for
the mines, it was a pleasant sight. In returning they looked
worn and weatherbeaten. When they started, all looked
smart. The white men with braided leggings and ornamen-
tal snow-shoes, and the Indians with streamers fluttering
from their caps of ermine, marten, and other furs, looked
quite picturesque; even the dogs harnessed to the birch~
wood sleighs seemed proud of their tinkling bells and gay
adornments.

“Never before was Sunday kept on the long marches. I
had given prayer and hymn books to some of the whites, and
suggested that one of them should minister to the rest, but
none ventured. The Indians had prayers every day, and
spent the Sunday in a most profitable manner. The whites
attended the services, and though they could not understand
the prayers, they joined in the hymns and encouraged the
Indians.

“TI had not appointed any leader; but J——, a
catechumen, last winter a dog-eater, came forward as a
natural leader, and said the prayers, and exhorted the
listeners. He is a splended fellow, square built, of great
muscular strength, having a large head, and intelligent,
though unhandsome, face—this man cannot but attract
attention. During the summer he paid a visit to Hazelton,
and the days spent here could not be quiet. His attentions
to Mrs. Ridley, then here alone, were almost comical. He
hung «bout her all day long. The clock would not go fast
enough to hasten school or service-time, that he might ring

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